I want to take a small break from the semi-interesting game video from the VGA to show you the non-bootlegged X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie trailer, which got hitched to the apparently doomed The Day the Earth Stood Still. Overall, it looks pretty cool, but I had a few random thoughts:
• How much of the Origin comics will be used for this movie? I have very little desire to see more than 5 minutes of li'l Wolvie running around his country estate.
• How pissed off is Wolverine allowed to be at the Weapon X program if he volunteered for it?
• The Blob is exactly how I imagined the Blob should look in an X-Men movie. Nice.
• Gambit looks better running around and fighting, but with that hat, he looks like Jack White from the White Stripes doing karate.
• Was that a baby Storm I saw in there for a 1/4 second?
• Is Deadpool really going to wear a sleeveless leather vest for the entire movie? That's the kind of outfit elderly Republicans assume gay men wear all the time, and yet, an actual gay man wouldn't be caught dead in one. Huh.
• The motorcycle to jeep to helicopter is pretty goddamned silly, even for a comic book movie.
Comments
Hugo said:
Lots of Highlanderisms in this movie. I think going as far as telling the story of Little Logan and the death of his parents, or whatever that was, may be to much. As for the bike-car-chopper stunt, I really expect Gavin Hood can do better than just throw in some overstylized slow-motion. It instantly became shit around 1999, as soon as The Matrix left the theaters.
Posted 12/15/2008 at 08:41:58 AM
Templar said:
That's the kind of outfit elderly Republicans assume gay men wear all the time, and yet, an actual gay man wouldn't be caught dead in one.
Of course not. I mean, it's not even lavender or made of nylon mesh. ;)
To be serious though, I'm more than a little disappointed that Deadpool appears to be the only character in the movie without some kind of action-shot in this trailer. Hopefully they're just saving the best for last...
Posted 12/15/2008 at 09:37:11 AM
Conan2nd said:
(Blue Tank Top said:
is that emma frost i saw in there? sweet)
Ditto. But her diamond form is a secondary muta... fuck I don't care. I just like that they're including this many mutants, if they're gonna alter continuity from the series thats fine. I like seeing new versions as long as they work for the story and aren't completely rediculous.
Posted 12/15/2008 at 11:33:09 AM
TW said:
If it's Emma Frost, that's fine.
If it's Husk, then I will buy my ticket as soon as possible.
Posted 12/15/2008 at 12:03:51 PM
mia said:
did i see dazzler?
and i am no expert on the subject of wolverine but i'm pretty sure he volunteered for the program without them telling him the whole story.
Posted 12/15/2008 at 12:04:10 PM
Tanath said:
and for a gambit comment - am i the only one that thinks it strange that the reason they didn't bring gambit into the other x-men movies was becasue he was too similar to wolverine...but then turn around and bring bring gambit into the wolverine movie...that doesn't make sense to me
Posted 12/15/2008 at 01:42:35 PM
tanath said:
and by similar they mean in that antihero personality way, not the claw or blow up stuff kind of way
Posted 12/15/2008 at 01:44:41 PM
Zach Oat said:
"The motorcycle to jeep to helicopter is pretty goddamned silly, even for a comic book movie." Dude, when was the last time you read a comic book? Wolverine does that kind of shit ALL THE TIME. I'm sure even one of your precious Ultimates has done it at one point or another.
I loved this trailer so much. And not simply because I look like this.
The fact that, supposedly, Wolverine rescues Baby Storm, Baby Cyclops and Miss Teen White Queen has me concerned about continuity, but then so does the Sabretooth issue, and Liev Schreiber has me all kinds of giddy. An actor! Playing Sabretooth!
Posted 12/15/2008 at 01:52:19 PM
Jason said:
Looks pretty sweet. My one gripe is that the girl from kid-Logan-James era needs to have really red hair. Hence his obsession with Jean Grey.
Posted 12/15/2008 at 02:10:22 PM
Yakub Shabazz said:
I think it looks pretty damn dope, personally. I didn't really care for ANY of the X-Men flicks, but this one is doing a body good so far.
Posted 12/15/2008 at 03:32:15 PM
Briahlen said:
Oh! Oh! Oh! Deadpool!*squees* Of all the characters he's the one I want to see jacked up the least. Course...I'm probably the only chick willing to shell out $80 for a DP action figure. *blushes* Little worried about the lack of mask & sleeves there. =(
I'm really excited about this one...the last 3 X-men movies left a bad taste in my mouth. =( So far I'm just thanking my lucky stars Uwe Boll didn't get his grubby, little fingers on it. *shudders*
As far as Gambit goes... I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm relieved he's in a purple shirt. I'll never forget the horror I faced when I realized the comic book character I once had a crush on spoke in the 3rd person. Lets not forget the pink spandex either. =/
Posted 12/15/2008 at 04:18:02 PM
Gnomemaster said:
First of all, Gambit hasn't been a good character ever. I can never understand his dumb accent and he hasn't even been on the X-Men team for a long time.
Secondly, this is my first time ever posting on this site, and I did it to say:
Nu-Uh! the motorcycle to jeep to helicopter scene was so beautifully Wolverine it made me smile. It's what Colossus throwing him around in X3 should have been.
Posted 12/15/2008 at 04:28:36 PM
NeoXorn said:
Blob, Deadpool & Emma Frost (If that really is Emma).
I will go and see this. = )
Good trailer. I hope the movie doesn't fuck-up.
Posted 12/15/2008 at 05:12:04 PM
mia said:
"My one gripe is that the girl from kid-Logan-James era needs to have really red hair. Hence his obsession with Jean Grey."
i'd like to think he loved jean due to their similar personalities rather than the two just having similar hair. i mean really.
Posted 12/15/2008 at 07:17:55 PM
Gerry said:
Hmmmm.... I had (have) high hopes for the movie, but I see a huge potential for epic failure along the lines of "Daredevil" there. Hope I'm wrong...
Posted 12/16/2008 at 05:57:10 AM
Kurgan64 said:
(1)Gambit is Cajun, you nits. Are you from this country? Have you never heard Cajuns talk? (2)Gambit is a badass character, though not nearly as old a one as Beast, Cyclops, Angel, Marvel Girl (later to be Phoenix/Jean Grey), Iceman, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Banshee, Storm, etc. (3)Deadpool should, probably more than anyone, have a true-to-the-comics costume. (4)How about sticking to the comics/movies related topics and ditching the CNN-brainwashed, Kool-Ade drinker, "hope & change" sheeple, Republican bashing, there, brain trust. (5)If you've already made up your mind to hate this movie & start blowing snotbubbles about it, how about keeping it to yourself & not trying to ruin it for the rest of us, there, Siskel & Ebert, Jr.? (6)Daredevil SUCKED epically. Ben Asslick shouldn't be allowed EVER to be in another movie since then, & shouldn't have been cast in it in the first place. Bullseye's movie characterization stunk on ice, too. We needn't even bring up the Catwoman aberration, or the smarmy, screw-the-fans,retarded Batman movies predating Batman Begins, or Ang Lee's psychobabble-infused, cinematic raping of the Hulk.
Posted 12/19/2008 at 07:36:38 PM
Friginator said:
The fact that Sammy the Fishboy is in it makes up for everything FOX has done ever.
Posted 12/23/2008 at 02:11:11 PM






